The Global State of Enterprise Mobility 2014/15

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1 The Global State of Enterprise Mobility 2014/15

2 Executive Summary This report, compiled from responses to our annual survey, is designed to determine exactly what is driving the global market for enterprise mobility, across the entire spectrum of professionals who operate in the space. The reason behind this research initiative, following the success of our 2013/14 report, is to keep the mobile community in-tune with the developments and trends that have occurred over the past year in relation to the technologies that comprise enterprise mobility, and where business priorities should lie moving into 2015 and beyond. In continuation of last year s investment trends, mobile applications are the dominant solution within the market, as these are the tools that enable the highest increases in employee productivity the key benefit of enterprise mobility. Despite difficulties adapting dated legacy systems and convincing senior decision makers to embrace the changes mobility introduces to an organisation, there has still been an increase in budgetary allocations for mobile solutions, as well as the average deal sizes for solution providers, in The transformative and disruptive mobile technologies which are forcing enterprises to adapt their overall business strategies will continue their momentum moving into 2015, so mobility leaders must follow this trajectory and allow their employees the mobile access to corporate systems, data and information they crave, in order to maximise the potential for productivity and the competitive advantages that follow. 2

3 FOREWORD Bill Goodwin, Commissioning Editor, Computer Weekly The designer of the first mobile phone was originally inspired by watching Captain Kirk use his communicator on Star Trek back in the early 1970s. In the three decades that followed, mobile communication has become a key part of everyday life. Today there are more mobile gadgets than there are people on the planet, and their numbers are growing five times more quickly than the human race is reproducing. By next year, the world s mobile workers will reach 1.3 billion, nearly 40% of the total workforce. Mobile technology allows us to research, send , and even send documents to our office printers, from almost anywhere. As more workers become mobile, companies are introducing hot-desking, downsizing their office space, and introducing flexible working patterns, that will help them cut their overheads. BYOD policies, in which companies encourage employees to use their own smartphones, laptops and tablets, are rapidly becoming the norm. The real beneficiaries of this are not businesses, but employees. As the nature of work changes, employees will call the shots, as companies compete to hire the best talent. More of us will work for ourselves. We will pick and choose who to work for and offer our services and expertise to companies we like and which share our values. Society stands to benefit in other ways, as mobile technology spurs the growth of the Internet of Things a network of devices that will dwarf the internet as it exists today. By 2020, the number of wireless connected devices will exceed 40.9 billion more than double the current total as businesses and governments develop innovative M2M applications. Milton Keynes in the UK, for example, is developing public recycling bins that will send automatic alerts when they are full. It s a simple idea but the technology promises to save time, money and fuel, as dustbin lorries are automatically routed to the bins that need emptying. The City of Oxford is using spare frequencies in the gaps that exist between TV stations to provide early warnings of floods and landslides from sensors suspended above the water line. British Network Rail is looking at the potential to use radio-enabled devices in train cabs, to replace traditional signalling. The technology will allow trains to run more quickly, and with greater frequency. Meanwhile, businesses are looking to a new generation of mobile devices, such as Google Glass and Occulus Rift, which offer virtual reality experiences. And it will be in the business market, rather than the consumer market, where these devices will really take off. Engineers, for example, could use Google Glass to view the plans of a machine as they build it, and doctors could use augmented reality to help them set bones in the right position, or guide a scalpel to its target with ultra-high precision. What would Captain Kirk have thought today? The truth is that mobile technology has become far more inspiring in reality than anything the science fiction writers had ever imagined. In association with 3

4 Enterprise Mobility in 2014 and Beyond Rob Tiffany Global Technology Lead: IoT and Enterprise Mobility Microsoft This last year was full of spectacular moments as mobility continued to consume the world. We now have almost three billion people online and most of that number is due to smartphones. Mobile apps eclipsed the web as the place people spend more of their time and an estimated 80% of adults will be using a smartphone by Since the best way to review the most important mobile events of 2014 is through a long, run-on sentence, take a breath and dive in: With millions of Win32 apps currently running most global businesses, large investments will be made in moving these apps to modern, sandboxed, mobile operating systems. Unlike many of the large, monolithic desktop apps built for Windows over the last two decades, mobile apps focus on specific tasks. This means for every Win32 app, multiple mobile apps will be built. Additionally, they will take advantage of device sensors to provide employees with better contextual experiences. Microsoft acquired Nokia, tablet growth slowed, VMware acquired AirWatch, mobile games outsold mobile apps, MobileIron went public, Apple shipped a phablet, Good acquired BoxTone, Gartner s MDM Magic Quadrant became their EMM Magic Quadrant, Xiaomi ate everyone s lunch in China, IBM and Apple got together to build business apps, Microsoft brought Office to the ipad, MEAP vanished while MBaaS appeared, Apple launched Swift, HTML5 became a recommendation, Android dominated market share, Apple dominated revenue and the Internet of Things won the hype award. Whew! With the Year in Review out of the way, let s talk about the things that will make the most impact in the enterprise mobility space in Expect the Bring Your Own App (BYOA) trend to hit a speed bump by corporate mobile centers of excellence that require enterprise mobile apps to meet security standards around authentication, data at rest and data in transit. Mobile developers need to up their game to break into the enterprise. Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) companies will continue their move from Mobile Device Management (MDM) to Mobile Application Management (MAM) to data protection and on to Identity and Access Management (IAM). The goalposts will always be moving in this space. With the back end systems of most enterprises unable to speak the language of mobile devices, let alone support their performance and scalability requirements, upgrading these on-premises systems or moving them to the cloud represents another large investment companies will be making. Some companies will wrap their existing systems in REST/JSON APIs; others will connect them to MBaaS offerings, while others purchase new vertically-integrated mobile packages. Rapidly shrinking wireless and sensor-enabled chipsets with low power consumption have given rise to the Internet of Things (IoT) with IPv6 ensuring there are enough addresses to go around. When combined with things like streaming analytics, machine learning and cloud scale, this descendant of SCADA and M2M is going to help companies unlock insights that lead to cost savings and new revenue opportunities. In the end, the promise of personal computing is being realised via small, portable, sensor-filled, picture-taking, supercomputing, low-powered communication devices that connect the citizens of the world and that s a good thing. Watch Rob s exclusive interview from Enterprise Mobility Exchange, Las Vegas, In the smartphone space, low-cost devices will continue to garner the most market share. Remember, once you leave the world of subsidised phone plans, economics takes over. The trick for enterprises looking to use them in corporate-liable scenarios is to ensure the mobile operating system meets security and manageability needs while performing well on lowend hardware. 4

5 Our survey asked mobility leaders questions to find out how enterprises are dealing with the mobile revolution. This included questions regarding what stage of the mobility journey practitioners are currently navigating for their organisations. What stage are you currently at along your mobility journey? Scoping Solutions Pilot Project Early Implementation Phase 2 Phase 3 Other (please specify) 21.4% 16.1% 16.1% 23.2% 12.5% 10.7% Other responses included: Exploratory, Defining Rework of Ancient Solution, Determining Customer Need, Operation, Full Production There seems to be a wide spread of enterprises across all reasonable stages of the mobility journey at this point in time. Despite mobility being identified as an essential competitive differentiator by many experts in recent years, there are still only 35.7% of respondents claiming to be beyond early implementation. A surprisingly high 21.4% of respondents are still scoping mobility solutions, a long way behind the curve. Interestingly, pilot project was the top response last year, with Phase 2 placing fourth, which suggests that the market has evolved in 2014 and is heading in the right direction when compared with these results. How frequently do you release test mobility programmes, prior to an enterprise-wide rollout? Monthly 17.9% Quarterly 28.5% Bi-Annually 12.5% Once a Year 17.9% Other (please specify) 23.2% Other responses included: As Needed, Depending on Project Needs, Whenever Necessary, Ad Hoc, When Needed Introducing, As Demand Dictates, Project by Project, As Required It appears that there is little agreement across mobile enterprises regarding how often mobility programmes should be tested and re-released. This is perhaps made most evident by some of the other responses given to this question, which reveal that it is not rare to do so on an ad hoc basis, rather than at pre-planned intervals. Advice from experienced practitioners in this space often tells enterprises to release early, release often, experiment and don t be afraid to learn from your failures. 5

7 Choosing Solution Providers Which factors are most important when choosing a solution provider?* How do you typically find out about new solution providers? It Solves the Specific Problem You Want 45.8% Ease of Use 47.9% Ease of Integration 47.9% It Fits in with Your Long-Term Mobility Strategy 52.1% Within Budget 41.7% It Complies with Regulations 35.4% References 20.8% Other (please specify) 2.1% Other responses included: Cutting Edge Philosophy and Solutions Recommendations 25.0% Business Conferences / Events 47.9% Industry News / Newsletters 20.8% Marketing s 2.1% Sales Calls 0.0% Other (please specify) 4.2% Other responses included: General Research Practitioners clearly find business conferences and events an effective and reliable way of finding solution providers that can meet their needs, and help them overcome core business challenges, as this response was the highest by some distance. An interesting and positive blend of solution providers. A great and relevant information exchange that was very beneficial... Tom LaPlante, Chief Information Officer, TopGolf on his experience at the Enterprise Mobility Exchange, Las Vegas 7

8 Breakdown of Respondents Practitioner Responses to the Survey 53% A mobility project owner holding direct responsibility for implementing mobile technology for my company s workforce 47% A direct influencer of investments in mobile technology for my company s workforce What title best describes your current role? How many mobile workers are in your organisation? C-Level 8.3% SVP 1.2% VP 3.6% Director 17.9% Head 16.7% Manager 33.3% 32.1% 26.2% 16.7% 9.5% 14.3% 1.2% Other Other responses included: 11,000, 75,000 Other 19.0% An influential 47% of practitioner respondents operate in organisations with or more employees, highlighting the strong presence of large enterprises within this research. Other responses included: IT Project Manager, Architect, Consultant, Product Manager, Consultant, Business Consultant, Engineer, Systems Specialist 8

10 A Solution Provider s Point of View Jeff Wallace Head of Mobility Practice and Business Leader Brillio Without a doubt, mobility is a white hot topic in the enterprise space today. There are countless stories of the incredible productivity benefits brought about by untethering workforces and providing unfettered access to corporate data to employees, anytime, anyplace. But, as with many technologies, things are often much easier said than done. Over the past few years within the mobility space, we ve seen a rush to the app store approach in which companies sought to quickly get an app out into the marketplace so as to lead or follow competitors. But, in this rush to the app store, companies often noticed that the apps did not quite hit the mark and adoption lagged expectations. And, it probably goes without saying, that without adoption, ROI is sure to be elusive. So, what I have witnessed in the marketplace over the past months are investments by companies that have specifically targeted adoption as the critical aspect of mobility solutions. To be clear, I have seen companies investing in improving user experience and ensuring proper, secure integration. Now, I have a fundamental belief about user experience and am thrilled to see these investments being made by organisations. My belief is rather simple and goes like this: User experience drives user adoption and user adoption drives ROI. So, when targeting methods to improve ROI, user experience is paramount to focus on. So, these investments that I see companies making in these UX areas are vital to the overall improvement of mobility-related ROI. And, as mentioned, I am also seeing investments being targeted at the proper, secure integration of these mobility solutions to the myriad legacy systems of record. As enterprise mobility applications have matured over the past few years, we have seen numerous challenges for companies to properly connect these applications to the various systems containing the needed data to provide to employees. As such, I ve seen some great MBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Service) solutions enter the market. These solutions are providing a straightforward, cost effective way for companies to do the heavy lifting of integrating to their respective backend systems. So, when you think about mobility solutions, imagine a world where good user experience is combined with high quality coding and proper, secure integration to backend systems of record. This world is surely possible given the investments that I have seen companies making as of late and 2015 and beyond will certainly bring about the resulting high quality enterprise applications to help realise the promise of enterprise mobility. 10

11 Change Management 14.3% Data Management 10.7% Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 16.1% Mobile & Enterprise Security 33.9% Mobile Applications 62.5% MEAP (Mobile Enterprise App Platform) 12.5% Mobile Application Management (MAM) 30.4% Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) 21.4% Mobile Connectivity 14.3% Mobile BI / Analytics 19.6% Mobile Devices Consumer (BYOD) 26.8% Mobile Devices Ruggedised 21.4% Mobile Network Providers 7.1% Mobile Device Management (MDM) 33.9% Mobile Marketing 8.9% Managed Services / Managed Mobility 8.9% Systems Integrators 14.3% Cloud Computing 32.1% COORdINaTION OF EFFORTSCONTENT PROgRaMMINg Social Media 14.3% Big Data 7.1% Field Service Automation 16.1% Mobile Travel and Expense Management 8.9% M2M 12.5% Workforce / Fleet Management 10.7% Mobile Asset Management 8.9% Integrated Asset Tracking Software 1.8% Asset Tracking/RFID 8.9% Vehicle Tracking and Telematics 1.8% Remote Device Monitoring 7.1% GIS 0.0% GPS 8.9% Service Scheduling 0.0% Mobile Printing 5.4% Automated Meter Reading (AMR) 0.0% Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 14.3% Other (please specify) 7.1% Change Management 10.4% Data Management 2.1% Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 8.3% Mobile & Enterprise Security 29.2% Mobile Applications 52.1% MEAP (Mobile Enterprise App Platform) 10.4% Mobile Application Management (MAM) 20.8% Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) 22.9% Mobile Connectivity 10.4% Mobile BI / Analytics 18.8% Mobile Devices Consumer (BYOD) 14.6% Mobile Devices Ruggedised 4.2% Mobile Network Providers 6.3% Mobile Device Management (MDM) 29.2% Mobile Marketing 8.3% Managed Services / Managed Mobility 2.1% Systems Integrators 6.3% Cloud Computing 10.4% Social Media 12.5% Big Data 4.2% Field Service Automation 6.3% Mobile Travel and Expense Management 4.2% M2M 8.3% Workforce / Fleet Management 2.1% Mobile Asset Management 8.3% Integrated Asset Tracking Software 0.0% Asset Tracking/RFID 4.2% Vehicle Tracking and Telematics 2.1% Remote Device Monitoring 4.2% GIS 4.2% GPS 2.1% Service Scheduling 4.2% Mobile Printing 8.3% Automated Meter Reading (AMR) 2.1% Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 12.5% Other (please specify) 8.3% Thank you for READING this preview of the Global State of Enterprise Mobility 2014/15 Have you found this useful? If you like what you ve read so far, you can view the full report: CLICK HERE 3 Key Trends & developments At the Enterprise Mobility Exchange, we re fortunate enough to work with the brightest minds in the business throughout the year, and we ve collected some of the most interesting insights from our broad network of mobility professionals, to piece together the trends which have stood out in User experience 1 strategic ThInKIng Consistency in design is very important, because if an employee is going to use The slowly growing trend of companies beginning multiple systems from different parts of the organisation, if there s consistency in flow to realise that mobile needs to mean something strategic and layout and how the user operates, they don t have to change context. to their business [which has continued from 2013 into this year] is nevertheless a move in the right direction. It s all based on the user. So understanding the user and usability of it; you may chris marsh, principal analyst, 451 research group. present some content in one way because it s going to be consumed one way, but similar content in a different way, because it s going to be consumed in a different way. In both respects, it really goes down to what do we do to make the user really engaged and able to do their job efficiently? 3 mobile applications and content Tim hundt, senior enterprise architect, ge capital. What we find particularly interesting is that the dialogue is very quickly evolving from a device-centric discussion into one that is more around content and applications, and ultimately what are we doing with these devices. 4 analytics and big data I don t care if you re custom-building an application or deploying some big ERP It is the applications that devices have access to and the content we re or CRM system, you need to have metrics that are going to help you quantify what interacting with via mobile devices that is going to provide the greatest value success is, and that sounds a lot easier than it is. add, both from an enterprise perspective internally, and the way they re interacting with their customers. Once you figure out [how to judge success on something that you know you david Krebs, evp: enterprise mobility, vdc research. should be doing in the first place], you have to bake those metrics into the application and you have to analyse them constantly. seth Kaplan, IT strategist, healthcare Technology consultant 5 IoT and connected devices and entrepreneur. There are many, many different diverse technologies that come to define M2M and IoT, but there are also many, many different markets and 6 Wearable Technology market segments within M2M and IoT as well. With this new wave of wearables it s really yet to be determined how it s going to fit. We actually look at it from the stand point of about 60 different application groups, and within those 60 application groups some 200 different types of My gut reaction says that they will continue to work in those types use-cases within those application groups that we can come up with solutions for of functions where wearables have always worked best, and that is that are M2M and IoT related. So, when we re talking about an M2M or IoT market verticals like public safety, military, technicians; any type of job where now, it s not one market but really a sub-set of many different markets with many it is really important for that individual to have his, or her, hands free. different drivers and dynamics, and certainly different points of maturity as well. Kevin burden, director of mobility, strategy analytics. godfrey chua, principal analyst, machina research. Following the partnership formed between Apple and IBM in 2014, view the Opening Keynote Address from Enterprise Mobility Exchange, Las Vegas from Fred Balboni, Global Managing Partner, Strategy and Analytics for IBM Global Business Services. 7 4 practitioner InvesTmenTs In enterprise mobility WhaT mobility solutions have you InvesTed In over The last months?* Mobile Applications 62.5% MDM 33.9% Mobile & Enterprise Security 33.9% Cloud Computing 32.1% Mobile Application Management 30.4% Other responses included: Sales Force Automation, Mobile Payments The top area of investment for practitioners is the same this year as it was last year, with mobile applications towering above all other aspects of mobility (last year 44% of respondents included this in their selections). Interestingly, the next most popular response from last year (consumer devices) has fallen out of the top five in 2014, reiterating many expert opinions pertaining to a shift away from that megatrend. Taking into account the other four of this year s top five responses, this could certainly be the case. 8 5 measuring The benefits of mobility In The enterprise (practitioner responses) Where have you seen The most TangIble benefits of mobility InvesTmenTs WIThIn your organisation?* Time Spent on Task (enterprise) 33.9% Time Spent on Task (field services) 30.4% Cost Reductions Across Lines of Business 14.3% Cost Reductions Overheads 14.3% Customer Improved Sales 23.2% Customer Loyalty and Retention 28.6% Competitive Advantages 33.9% Other (please specify) 14.3% Other responses included: Accurate and More Timely Field Data Capture WhaT methods did you Use To measure The benefits? TOPIC Response Usability and User Feedback: User Responses, Staff Responses, Ease of Use, Customer Feedback on Job Completion Surveys and Other Research: Surveys, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Customer Surveys Revenue, Sales and ROI: Revenues, More Sales, Sales Apps Measured Based on Revenue Growth and Speed to Revenue, Revenue Calculations, Sales Revenue Increase Customer Retention: Extending Customers Contractual Periods, Customer Loyalty, Demand for the Service, Retention, Reliability Analytics and Business Analytics Tools, Source Codes of New Business, Project-Specific Measurement, Data Intelligence: Analysis, Analytics, Business Intelligence Tools, Internal Company Metrics, Field Measurements, Actual Use of Devices Productivity and Efficiency: Pure Time Saved, Travel Time, Number of Hours Dedicated, Time Taken to Respond, Staff Productivity Improvement, Average Time to Complete Tasks We asked respondents to explain, in their own words, how they have measured the impact of mobility within their organisation, with many methods being mutually agreed upon and submitted several times. Above are some of the most prominent and common answers submitted regarding a measurement for the tangible benefits of enterprise mobility solving specific problems WITh mobility WhaT Is The most prominent single problem WIThIn your organisation ThaT has been effectively resolved by mobility? IMPROvEMENT OF FIEld-FORCE REMOTE COMMuNICaTIONS PROduCTIvITY EFFICIENCY EaSE OF ExECuTION CONTENT PROgRaMMINg CuSTOMER RESPONSE TIME SaTISFaCTION COllabORaTION COllabORaTION COMPETITIvENESS SECuRITY data ENTRY availability OF byod data & INFORMaTION CONNECTIvITY SINglE SOuRCE OF TRuTh COSTS REal-TIME INFORMaTION uniform PROCESS ENd-TO-ENd agility data ENTRY COvERagE INSTallaTION accountability decision MaNagEMENT RESISTaNCE TO ChaNgE REaChINg EMPlOYEES SPEEd OF approvals dispatching OF STaFF 13 8 future goals and InvesTmenTs (practitioner responses) WhaT mobility solutions do you plan To InvesT In over The next months?* Mobile Applications 52.1% Mobile & Enterprise Security 29.2% MDM 29.2% EMM 22.9% Mobile Application Management 20.8% Other responses included: Previsions and Deployment, SMS Monitoring Solutions The future looks bright for enterprise mobility, as far as practitioners are concerned. The distribution of responses reflect positively on the intent and also the strategic goals of organisations looking to invest in mobile solutions. Enterprises will be looking to continue the trend of investing in mobile applications moving into 2015 and beyond, which was placed as the highest priority in last year s report as well. Mobile and enterprise security is consistently high on the agenda for organisations, and will continue to be a prominent challenge for the foreseeable future. 15 For more information, visit the Enterprise Mobility Exchange 11

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